Earlier this month Galaxy Zoo took part in the 100 Hours of Astronomy, which was extremely successful and enjoyable too! Since then, several zooites have remarked that it was great fun and a real inspiration to classify more. So just for today, we decided we’d like to have another go.
Galaxy Zoo was inspired by zookeeperKevin’s [...]
Today’s guest blogger is Shanil Virani, a grad student at Yale who has been working on the X-ray follow-up of IC2497 & Hanny’s Voorwerp:
Most of you, if not all, are familiar with the story of Hanny’s Voorwerp — an unusual object found by the GZ team near the disk galaxy IC 2497. The optical spectrum [...]
Following on from my earlier post, the updated log of Suzaku now shows that IC2497 has been observed. When will get get to see the data? That might take a while, as the mission support scientists check whether the data is OK and perform the first part of the reduction. This will take a few weeks, when [...]
Last week (April 20th-23rd) the University of Hertfordshire in Hatfield hosted the European Week of Astronomy and Space Sciences which incorporated both the Royal Astronomical Society’s National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) and the Joint European and National Astronomy Meeting (JENAM) for 2009. Galaxy Zoo was reasonably well represented at the meeting with 3 past and present [...]
At long last the ‘Peas’ have been submitted to MNRAS (The Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society,). The ‘Peas’ were discovered by users right here in Galaxy Zoo who noticed a strange class of small green galaxies at redshifts near z=0.2. A dedicated group of volunteered collected a sample of these galaxies. Then Kevin Schawinski found an [...]
I just wanted to give my two cents about the conference in Malaysia. As Steven mentioned, we attended the “Galaxy Evolution and Environment” conference in Kuala Lumpur at the beginning of April. It was a pretty large conference, with more than fifty speakers and more than fifty posters. There were a few [...]
I thought I’d go for a slightly different top 10 this week. Zoo users are distributed all over the world – in more than 170 countries, in fact – but some places have more than others. I present, therefore, this week’s top 10 most zooite filled cities :
1. London – No surprise here given where [...]
What was the final Zoonometer™ count? You can find out here…
On Saturday I gave the after dinner talk at the British Astronomical Association (BAA) annual weekend in Winchester. At the BAA they call this talk the Alfred Curtis Memorial Lecture in memory of Alfred Curtis – a former BAA member who was instrumental in setting up the BAA annual weekend.
I’ll confess I didn’t know much [...]
It’s been a great day – we sailed past our target of 1 million clicks in 100 hours late this Saturday morning. The site became a little sluggish as the couter got closer and closer to the 1 million mark, probably because everyone was hitting the refresh button (I know I was!).
Anyway, we made [...]